Got lucky with a pretty good deal on a famicom + disk system. I need to take apart the disk drive to see if I got lucky and it is one of the ones that can write disks without modification. If it is, I can get an adapter and overwrite common disks with rare games instead - or sometimes you can save failing disks by re-imaging a fresh ROM onto the disk. Pretty need from an archive/backup perspective.
If I didn't get lucky then I have another thing to motivate me to get off my ass and finally learn to solder.
I didn't know that but you're right it looks like they did release basic and a keyboard for it. That's cool and it looks like they're not god awfully expensive yet. I knew there was some music software and peripherals but yeah. Pretty dope.
I wish the disk system would have taken off because getting a new game for 25 (or rewriting an old one for 5) rather than having to pay 50-60 dollars for every game would have been a game changer as a kid. They do have annoying load times and are prone to failure and are a nightmare from a collecting / archiving perspective but yeah. I would liked to have lived in the world where everyone copied and traded nintendo games like cassette tapes.
Everyone says the disk system didn't sell so they pulled support but I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few people at nintendo didn't like the idea pretty quick after they realized they could sell the cartridges.